Category: Pen Review
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Pen Review: MIG Brass Fountain Pen with Mini Kit
Shane of The MIG Shed has been on Fountain Pens Australia for several years ago. At some point the topic of me reviewing one of their pens came up and today before what became a successful Kickstarter campaign I was send this pen for review.
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Pen Review: Esterbrook Premium Camden Northern Lights Manitoba Blue
Around August 2022 Esterbrook released three premium versions of their Camden fountain pen. I’ve reviewed Esterbrook’s Estie three times with different nibs and pens sizes. In between I also reviewed the JR Pocket Pen. The only pen model left for me to review now is the Phaeton 300! The Camden sits somewhat in between the…
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Pen and Notepad Review: Midori MD Fountain Pen, MD A5 Notebook, and MD Paper Notebook Cover
Today is a review of a set of items from Midori that work quite nicely together. These aren’t an official set but I think they could easily be and would be great to buy together. They are the Midori MD Fountain Pen, the Midori MD Lined A5 Notebook with the Paper Notebook Cover. These are…
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Pen Review: Ferris Wheel Press Brush Fountain Pen (Gold-Plated Sandcastle Clay)
The Brush Fountain Pen, a pen I have been interested in for a while, was Canadian company Ferris Wheel Press’s first product release way back in late 2017 and since then the company has become a very well known brand with dozens of unique inks and, recently, an expansion of the fountain pen line up…
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Pen Review: Esterbrook JR Pocket Pen (Paradise set, Tuxedo and vintage Esterbrook J)
The Esterbrook JR Pocket Pen is part of the modern Esterbrook’s revival of the brand with the pen being a call back to one of vintage Esterbrook’s most popular pens, the Esterbrook J. The modern Esterbrook JR has come in a few colours, Red (‘Carmine’), Black, (‘Tuxedo’), and Blue (‘Capri’) but Esterbrook recently released the…
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Pen Review: Esterbrook Estie ‘Gold Rush’ (Prospector Black) with Scribe nib
Earlier in the year I reviewed the Esterbrook Estie in the Limited Honeycomb (with a Journaler nib) and the standard Cobalt Blue (with a standard fine) finish. This is another Esterbrook Estie and while I don’t usually review pens with different finishes (although the material here is decently different) this Estie also comes with a…
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Pen Review: Esterbrook Estie with Journaler nib and Vintage nib (+ Nook giveaway)
Esterbrook is a company with a lot of renowned early history until 1971 and a bit of a hiccuped relaunch of the brand since 2014. The 2018 relaunch by the folks at Kenro Industries, Inc. has been a much more confidence inspiring relaunch with the company releasing multiple pens and cases as well as integrating…
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My Pen Collection 2021
In early January I wrote about my ink collection and I mentioned that I’d be writing an update on my pens as well. It’s taken a while because there has been a lot of photos taken for this! This is a long, so I’d understand if you skim the stats and my thoughts on the…
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Pen Review: Pilot V-Pen
A bit of a different review this time! This review is of a pen that is many hundreds of dollars or even over a thousand dollars less than some pens I’ve reviewed. This pen is cheaper than any of my inks! The Pilot V-Pen/Varsity is a single-use (by design) fountain pen that retails for less…
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Pen Review: Pilot Custom Heritage 91 (SMF – Black and Silver trim)
The Pilot Custom Heritage 91 is the middle of Pilot’s mid-range range of pens (and they have a pretty huge range) sitting between the Custom 74 and the Custom Heritage 92. Pilot somewhat recently revamped the colours of this line of pens with new colours. It’s a pen that should be one of the staple…